5th Fukushima worker died, “acute myocardial infarction”

 

Another Fukushima worker died. According to Tepco’s announcement, he was the 5th worker to have died in the plant.

A male Fukushima worker in late 50s died of acute myocardial infarction on 8/22/2012.
He has been working since August of 2011. 8/22/2012 was the first working day after the summer vacation. He was working to extend contamination water storage tank with 4 other workers. He became sick around at 9:50. He was resting to prevent heat stroke but another worker found him out of consciousness around at 10:35.

The integral dose of that day was 0.03 mSv. It was 25 mSv since he started working in Fukushima.

According to Tepco’s announcement again, it has nothing to do with radiation exposure.

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I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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